A 60-mile stretch of interstate separates Nashville from Manchester, the rural Tennessee town known to most music fans as home of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. It’s no wonder, then, that more and more country artists have begun dotting Bonnaroo’s yearly lineups, turning a former jam-band festival into one… Source: RollingStone Link: Sam Hunt, […]
On the title track to his forthcoming solo LP, Charles Kelley paid tribute to the people who are part of the touring musician’s family and make the “traveling circus” possible. Now he’s released a second song that gives a different music insider perspective. “Leaving Nashville,” which was written by Abe Stoklasa and… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Margo Price took her classic country from East Nashville to New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater last night, making her network television debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Clad in a long black dress, she and her band chugged through an electric version of her single “Hurtin’ (On the… Source: RollingStone Link: See Margo […]
Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg has an instantly recognizable voice, sonorous and smooth. That sound has built a loyal following for the Austin, Texas, band over six previous albums of subtly psychedelic indie rock and chamber-pop; the most recent, like 2010’s The Golden Archipelago, have often tended towards Shearwater’s spectral side, heavy on… Source: RollingStone Link: Jet Plane […]
Over 20 years after the inception of the feminist punk wave known as riot grrrl, New York rapper Le1f has adopted the same radically confessional ethos for somewhere it’s desperately needed: outside the well-documented complex of the alt white girl, and into the spectrum of the black, gay experience. Le1f traverses… Source: RollingStone Link: Riot Boi
LOS ANGELES (AP) — France-based music streaming service Deezer says it has raised 100 million euros ($109 million) from its two largest shareholders to fuel its expansion after abandoning plans for an initial public offering of stock last year. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Music streamer Deezer raises 100M euros after abandoned IPO
Plus, get reviews of albums from Anderson .Paak and Wray. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Music Reviews: The Latest From Panic! At The Disco, Anderson .Paak and Wray
Naturally, ‘Blackstar’ amounted to significant portion of Bowie’s sales for the week — however, even without the set, his catalog of earlier albums still saw a huge lift. Source: Yahoo Music Link: David Bowie's U.S. Music Sales Increase More Than 5,000 Percent in Wake of Death
Rising R&B star Tinashe has teamed with Juicy J and hitmaker Mike Will Made It for a sultry new cut, “Energy.” Over deft trap percussion, hypnotic synth lines and a warbling vocal loop, Tinashe unspools in her crystalline voice all the enticing possibilities that arise when the games between two people finally… Source: RollingStone Link: Tinashe […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country musicians in Nashville mourned the loss of Eagles' bandleader Glenn Frey as they recalled the band's timeless impact with their smooth harmonies and memorable lyrics that embodied the cool California country rock sound. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Country musicians mourn loss of Eagles bandleader Glenn Frey